Principal Distributed System Engineer - Query

Company: Workday, Inc.
Location: Pleasanton
Posted on: February 25, 2021

Job Description:

USA, CA, Pleasanton Do what you love. Love what you do.
At Workday, we help the world's largest organizations adapt to what's next by bringing finance, HR, and planning into a single enterprise cloud. We work hard, and we're serious about what we do. But we like to have fun, too. We put people first, celebrate diversity, drive innovation, and do good in the communities where we live and work. Job Description The Query team develops code at the very heart of Workday's cloud-based software platform. As a member of this team you'll work with exceptionally innovative and experienced engineers that have built highly robust, performant and scalable data query solutions that today service half a billion queries a day with 97% of queries executing in less than 5ms. Joining this team will allow you to drive the architectural direction for our distributed query engine and further deepen your technical strengths. Be truly agile and see your solutions in production use at the speed of cloud with rapid deployments. You'll find your knowledge, experience and talents fully taxed and then some. Curious to scale this technology into the future, and can cover the requirements below? Give us a shout! About the Role:

• Experience in database systems, distributed systems, and concurrent programming.
• The Engineer should be familiar with map-reduce techniques, object oriented and functional programming, as well as fluent in patterns for software architecture and design
• The Engineer would get experience working in--query--indexing, with special focus on performance, scalability and robustness
• Ideal engineer has worked through the internals of an in-memory database system with focus on scale and quality, columnar store experience is a plus
• This is an exciting opportunity of building infrastructure at scale for Workday's next generation cloud platform About You: You are a technical leader with a passion for team success. You have talent and enthusiasm for creating usable, scalable, well-tested software. You want to work in a highly collaborative, agile environment. You love learning new technologies, languages, tools, and frameworks - and thinking carefully about which ones will be of real benefit in your projects. Here are the things we are looking for: --- Exceptional core CS concepts (distributed programming, concurrency, algorithms) --- You have strong experience with designing highly distributed systems with 8-10 + years' experience --- You have a passion for code correctness (continuously improving testability and code quality) --- Thrive in a fast paced, high energy and fun work environment that is agile and deliver value incrementally and frequently --- You have 8-10+ years' experience with Java or Scala --- A Bachelors' or Masters' degree in Computer Science, Math, or related field Technologies we use (great if you are already familiar with them):Query processing, Apache Ignite, Akka, Kafka, Zookeeper, Openstack, Docker, Kubernetes, Hadoop, Spark Workday is no ordinary work day. With our spirited company meetings, high-caliber workforce, recognition programs, conference visits and company events it is no coincidence that we have been named the #1 top workplace in the Bay Area by the Bay Area News Group for the fifth consecutive year. Learn more about Workday: Why Workday? https://www.workday.com/en-us/company/careers/why-work-at-workday.html Workday's Technology Platform and Development Process (whitepaper): Workday Technology and Innovation Blog: Posted 30+ Days Ago Full Time JR-45534 About Us About Workday At Workday, our employees have always been our number one Core Value. We understand that everyone has unique experiences and perspectives which is why our mission is to create a safe space where all people and ideas are welcomed. Our commitment to value inclusion, belonging, and equity (VIBE---) and creating a brighter workday for all is the cornerstone of all we do. Join us! Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. Founded in 2005, Workday delivers financial management, human capital management, and analytics applications designed for the world's largest companies, educational institutions, and government agencies. Organizations ranging from medium-sized businesses to Fortune 50 enterprises have selected Workday. Workday is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Workday are considered without regards to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Further, pursuant to applicable local ordinances, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We do not accept resumes from headhunters, placement agencies, or other suppliers that have not signed a formal agreement with us.
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